{"id":876,"date":"2025-04-23T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2025-04-24T21:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T21:45:15","slug":"switch-2-game-key-cards-wont-make-it-easy-for-physical-collectors-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/switch-2-game-key-cards-wont-make-it-easy-for-physical-collectors-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch 2 Game-Key Cards Won&#8217;t Make It Easy For Physical Collectors In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Third-party titles are being sold on game-key cards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s Switch 2 will support both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/switch-2-game-key-cards-arent-tied-to-nintendo-accounts\">regular game cards and game-key cards<\/a>. Game-key cards don&#8217;t contain the full data and are instead used as a &#8220;key&#8221; to download the full game to your system via an internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the best news for physical collectors when it comes to specific games, and now following Switch 2 software pre-orders going live in Japan, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/every-physical-third-party-switch-2-game-seen-in-japan-so-far-is-a-game-key-card-requiring-a-download\/\">it&#8217;s being reported<\/a> that most third-party releases so far in this region are game-key cards.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/switch-2-game-key-cards-wont-make-it-easy-for-physical-collectors-in-japan\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third-party titles are being sold on game-key cards. Nintendo&#8217;s Switch 2 will support both regular&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}